Revolutionary Colourised Images Show The Bolshevik Uprising in Early 20th Century Russia

THE GRITTY reality of the Russian Revolution in the early 20th century has been brought to light thanks to a series of expertly colourised images.

Red army soldiers 1919.Viacheslav Peregudov / mediadrumimages.com

Striking pictures show Vladimir Lenin disguised as factory worker KP Ivanov at Razliz station in August 1917, Lenin with Joseph Stalin in 1922 and revolutionaries and women and former members of the Russian Army holding up a plaque that states ‘The tyranny has collapsed and the chains are broken’.

Other stunning colour shots show the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II with his family and visiting the army in 1916, the Tsar family executor Jakob Jurovsky and the February revolution taking place in 1917.

“The first was the February revolution, which screamed in the squares about equality and brotherhood, followed by the Bolshevik revolution, the civil war.

Revolutionary women and former members of the Russian Army hold up a plaque reading ‘The tyranny has collapsed and the chains are broken’. The funeral of february revolution victims. St Petersburg (Petrograd ) March 1917.Viacheslav Peregudov / mediadrumimages.com

“And you’re looking for the point where the giant Empire began its descent to the edge of the abyss.

The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union. The Russian Empire collapsed with the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II and the old regime was replaced by a provisional government during the first revolution of February 1917.

In the October Revolution the Bolsheviks led an armed insurrection by workers and soldiers in Petrograd that successfully overthrew the Provisional Government, transferring all its authority to the soviets with the capital being relocated to Moscow shortly thereafter.

Soon after, civil war erupted among the “Reds” (Bolsheviks), the “Whites” (counter-revolutionaries), the independence movements and the non-Bolshevik socialists. It continued for several years, during which the Bolsheviks defeated both the Whites and all rival socialists and thereafter reconstituted themselves as the Communist Party. In this way, the Revolution paved the way for the creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1922.

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